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The latest in a series of interviews with artists who have developed a significant body of work engaged (in its process, or in the issues it raises) with technology. See the full list of Artist Profiles here.
Hannah Black, My Bodies (2014). Digital video.
Your work concerns bodies, or the condition of being bodied. Your last video Fall of Communism (2014) feels like a sculpture in the sense that as a viewer, one's own body is pulled into relief, as with an object in space. I felt pulled into the space of the video, vertiginous. At your show at the Legion TV gallery in London, one half of what was on display was a hand-cut latex the color of skin. Is the work an analog for the body, or otherwise, where does the body (of the maker or the viewer) intersect or interact with the body of the work for you?
It's true that if you look at a lot of my work there is an interest in viscera, in the interior of the body—but it's not a Paul McCarthy guts and blood thing, it's a stand-in for interiority in general, for the inside being outside and vice versa. The phrase "being bodied" could mean "getting killed" as well as "being embodied" and I think that tension is one of the ways that I'm interested in what it means to have, or not have, something called "a body." I tried to write about how our concept of the body might one day, in a utopian way, be replaced by the framework of lifetime or different concentrations of experience. My wildest idea was that this reinterpretation of sensory experience would "render death merely chronological," a phrase I still love, though it's hard for me to recall exactly what I meant by it. Something about placing yourself in the long flow of time, allowing your self-conception to accommodate more than just your own conscious physical experience, I think. In the end it was too sci-fi an idea and didn't work out as an essay, so instead became the video My Bodies. I wanted to say something about how there is no generic body, no such thing as "the body"; bodies are raced, gendered, and assisted differently in the world. I collected images of white business executives, and you hear the voices of African-American female singers—Aaliyah, Beyonce, Whitney Houston, Jennifer Hudson, and many others—all singing the phrase "my body." I also use Ciara's song "Body Party." There is a whole tradition in black philosophy of trying to think about to what extent white thought is able to conceptualize black people as having bodily integrity. Hortense Spillers says that the enslaved body, for example, becomes just flesh; Frank Wilderson picks up this train of thought. This is part of the black critique of white feminism: the latter assumes, absurdly, that all women have bodies in the same way. The first part of the video presses on this tension. The second part of the video imagines a realm in between lives where someone is considering whether or not to be born again into a new body, knowing all of the implications of that, knowing how many people in this world have bodies that are racialized or impoverished or perhaps don't, in some senses, fully have bodies at all. It's like the famous romantic scene in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind where they realize they have had their relationship before: would I do it again? Would I choose to be embodied again?


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iunno any of your friends, but I think they have to be smokin' something good if they honestly believe A3 is better than the first two - or they're fincher fanatics.
spudthedestroyer wrote:Nope, he preferred the style, pace and uniqueness of Alien 3. Said he liked its edginess and the balls it had stamping on the spirit of ripley.
spudthedestroyer wrote:I'm hoping we get a proper alien 4, without ripley but sticking to its horror roots.
dinky wrote:And the spirit of ripley thing, I REALLY don't get. if anything, it pumps her up like some goddamn messiah. that the franchise apparently can't live without.
dinky wrote:it (Alien3) seemed clearly to be retreading the same themes established in ALIEN.
spudthedestroyer, dinky & maxpayne2409 wrote:Very interresting things about many movies I haven't seen and comics I haven't read.
spudthedestroyer wrote:Fincher is indeed overrated but I'd probably pistol whip all you people to death with a wet sponge if it meant another Fight Club and I'm not even a violent person
spudthedestroyer wrote:I just wish Warner Bros would have given him (Terry Gilliam) Harry Potter as the writer wanted; apparantly she set the atmosphere based upon his work and was really a huge fan of what he did. Imagine Terry Gilliam with a big budget working on a fantasy free for all?
spudthedestroyer wrote:That ranks second in my biggest losses to cinema history, right after the failed attempt to get Dune made (with involvement from Dali, Giger and Pink Floyd):
maxpayne2409 wrote:As for Reign of Fire, i was just about tolerating, even maybe enjoying it until matthew mccoughey or whatever his name is appeared with his silly tank and bald head and crack team of dragon slayer people.
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Mohegan Sun will continue Massachusetts expansion plans, despite Connecticut layoffs
PALMER, Mass. -- The chief executive of the Mohegan Sun's parent company says layoffs at the Connecticut casino will not affect its expansion plans in western Massachusetts.
The Day of New London reports that Mitchell Etess, head of the Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority, told the Quaboag Hills Chamber of Commerce in Palmer on Wednesday that 300 layoffs announced last month were necessary to "right-size" the work force. He says Connecticut's economy is worse than elsewhere.
The Telegram of Worcester reported that Etess said the Mohegan Sun will pay its $400,000 application fee for the Palmer site when it submits its formal request. He said it will happen when the time is appropriate but was not specific.
The Massachusetts Gaming Commission says Suffolk Downs in East Boston and MGM in Springfield have submitted resort casino fees.


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Todays FFWD recipe is for "Deconstructed BLT and Eggs". My husband has been on South Beach for about 3 weeks now, so I thought.. uggh another salad. But it did fit our dietary needs this week so, I took the turkey bacon out of the fridge and started to construct my Deconstructed BLT! I used a bag of mixed lettuce, since that is what I had in the house. I'm trying to use up all the food in my fridge before we leave for vacation. I boiled my eggs the day before. I peeled the eggs, fried up the bacon and bread cubes, then mixed up the dressing. I had just made Dorie's Oven Roasted Tomatoes and had about a half cup leftover. I used them instead of sun dried tomatoes in the salad. They were so good!
This salad was delicious. Between the bacon, oven roasted tomatoes, and eggs the flavors were wonderful. Even my husband, who has been eating a lot of salads lately, commented how delicious this was and he didn't even get to eat the croutons! Since this was our dinner, I served it with grilled chicken. I will definitely be making this again. It's a keeper!
This recipe can be found in Dorie Greenspans book "Around My French Table".
|Delicious! Loved the bits of bacon with the eggs and mayo!
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This lyrical fantasy for adults has a down to earth "real" feel to it, despite some of the mystery in it. The novel is about memory and surviving a difficult childhood. Sometimes when children experience darkness, it is fantasy that pulls them out into the light. Gaiman says it well, "I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy." p. 199.
The story line is simple enough and best discovered during the reading. The author himself says 'Ocean' is an overgrown short story. I read it easily in a day. A few things I learned/liked:
- We all need someone to believe in and trust.
- We all need someone to save us.
- Two people will never remember the same event in exactly the same way.
- There are some things we will never understand, like why people take a vegetable like raw peas that taste great and put them in tins and boil them so they become disgusting.
There's a legend in book circles that you can read "Page 69" as a judge of whether you'll like a book or not. By then the set up has taken place, the characters have been introduced and the author should have reached his representative stride in terms of writing style. Well, the jury is still out on whether the "Page 69 Test" works (try it out for yourself!), but in this book I coincidentally (or not) found a beautiful quote on page 69 which sums the book up well.
"I like myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were."
Neil Gaiman has written a number of award winning children's books including The Graveyard Book, Coraline, and Anansi Boys.
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"Planet Ocean", a new international documentary directed by Yann Arthus-Bertrand and Michael Pitiot had its European premiere at a screening at the Bozar Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels on 27 June in collaboration with UNRIC to celebrate World Environment Day.
The film will be shown on television worldwide and made available free of charge for screening in schools and events organized by NGOs.
This 90 minute HD documentary had its world premiere at Rio+20, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro on 19 June 2012.
The film, a celebration of the beauty of the ocean and its importance for the planet, tells the story of the link between man and ocean, the future of humankind on earth, the governance issue of the high seas and future challenges.
While critical of the results of Rio+20, co-director Yann Arthus-Bertrand said that if there was a solution it could be found in a "revolution of civilization" with spiritual, ethical and moral elements. The revolution, he warned, would not neither be political, scientific nor economic but one that begins at home. "Everyone of us has to take into account the impact of our actions on the planet. There are people who need to progress, who need more, but we in the Western world have too much. We need to learn how to live better with less," he told a full house at the premiere in response to questions from UNEP Brussels director, Christian Vanden Bilcke.
Introducing Yann Arthus Bertrand, UNRIC Director Afsane Bassir-Pour said "to whom do our oceans belong? To all of us and therefore to none of us, that is both a blessing and a curse, because who is responsible for their well being?"
Thanks to its astonishing aerial photography filmed by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, and award winning underwater cameramen, the film takes the spectator on a magnificent and unprecedented journey into the heart of the least known regions of our planet.
Co-written with Michael Pitiot, the film is a collaboration with a unique pool of researchers, oceanographers and biologists from several countries.
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FOWLERVILLE, Mich. (AP) - A motorist driving along Interstate 96 was shot and wounded Saturday in the latest in a string of shootings in southeastern Michigan, authorities said.
Sheriff Bob Bezotte told Detroit radio station WWJ-AM that the man was taken to the hospital Saturday afternoon after being shot in the hip by a bullet that came through the driver's-side door. Bezotte said shots were fired at another car earlier but its two occupants weren't injured.
No injuries had been reported before Saturday in the series of at least 24 shootings in four counties. Most of the shootings involve cars near Interstate 96, though authorities said one occurred while a man was taking out his trash. In another incident, a woman said the rear window on her car was shattered. Ten of the shootings were in Wixom in Oakland County.
Saturday's shooting was the first incident since Oct. 18. WHMI-FM reported that multiple police agencies were searching for the suspect. The freeway's westbound lanes were closed in the area of the shootings.
Based on reports, authorities said the gunman appears to be a man in his 30s.
'We need somebody to report this,' Bezotte said. 'We need to stop this guy before he kills somebody.'
Police said Friday that tests on bullet fragments and casings determined that the same firearm was used in the string of shootings up to that point.


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Dinosaurs lived back in the Jurassic period. They have long since died out, but the stones from this era still remain. The 230 kilometre Jurasteig Trail brings us closer to this extraordinary Jurassic landscape.
The circular route between Regensburg and Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz is highly diverse. We hike along alpine paths and through meadows with fluttering butterflies. We cross beautiful pine and beech forests and stay overnight in sleepy Bavarian villages in the Upper Palatinate. We do a tour of a robbers' cave (be careful not to disturb the bats!) and hike across a moor. We climb up rocky mountain slopes and see a deer park. The river valleys of the Danube, Naab and Altmühl form the backdrop of the Jurasteig Trail. We also come across numerous castles, abbeys and even a monastery castle on our hike. The Jurasteig Trail is a route for all pleasure seekers. Follow in the footsteps of dinosaurs on your hike!
Manuel Andrack, editor, presenter, author and hiking blogger:
"Weltenburg Abbey is home to the world's oldest monastic brewery. The monks have been brewing their beer here since 1050. Their black beer has won the award for the world's best dark beer three times."
At a glance: Jurasteig
Starts/ends: Kelheim
Length: 230 km
Number of stages: 12
Altitude variation: lowest point 337 m, highest point 615 m
Terrain: 37% unmade, 20% asphalt, 43% other, e.g. farm tracks
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Can we find finite metabelian (ie with derived length 2) groups with arbitrarily many distinct degrees of irreducible complex characters?
If we cannot, can we somehow find a bound of the form $|cd(G)|\leq f(dl(G))$ for some "interesting" function $f$ (linear would be very cool for instance).
The motivation is that we of course have the bound $dl(G)\leq 2|cd(G)|$ for solvable groups (and conjectured to actually be $dl(G)\leq |cd(G)|$), so I was wondering if a bound in the other direction also existed.


text: Windows Phone 8.1 has my attention now April 18, '14 Comments [67] Posted in WinPhone Sponsored By I've had an iPhone since the 3GS (I have a 5S right now) but I'm always flirting with the Windows Phone. It's just prettier than my iPhone, but my iPhone has a lot of apps...so I stay with it. Folks tease me at work and at conferences for not using a Windows Phone. I always say "when it's an awesome phone platform, I'll use it." Man, Windows Phone 8.1 is definitely more than "point 1 better." Seriously. It's the platform Windows Phone should have been from the beginning. From a general functionality perspective, this 8.1 update brings the Windows Phone (finally) on par with my iPhone 5s, and in some cases, takes it beyond. It's REALLY tempting now. There's a lot of new stuff, but a few things really grabbed my attention that my iPhone doesn't have yet: Notification Center - Finally. Swipe down from the top and get notifications in one place. Just like an iPhone you get quick access buttons for airplane mode, wireless, etc. Even better, those buttons are configurable. I added Internet Sharing to mine. You can also swipe down then press Settings as a fast way to get to the main settings page. Transparent Live Tiles - You can use a background image for your whole start screen, and it will show through transparent tiles. It also has a nice parallax effect when scrolling. Check it out in the video below. "Show more Tiles" on smaller resolution devices - The 1520 on the right has the 1080p screen, while the 920 is a lower resolution screen. Previously only high-res screens got the extra column of tiles. Now smaller screen devices can choose their start screen size and add LOTS more info to a single screen. Pinnable Website Tiles - This one surprised me. I recently added support to my blog for IE11 Pinned Tiles, so you can pin this website to your start screen and get an updated Live Tile showing the latest stories. I talked to the front end developer at The Verge and he added the feature for theverge.com as well. His implementation is REALLY impressive. The surprise was that Windows Phone 8.1 now supports that same technique and I didn't need to do anything. See on the 920 on the right, at the bottom, that's a pinned flipped tile showing a story from my blog. Very nice. Cortana Voice Assistant - You could say this is the Windows' Siri, but it's more like Google Now with a personality. The voice recognition happens as you speak as opposed to after the fact, which is nice. You can ask questions like "How old is Oprah" and she (or he) just knows. You can say "Call my wife" and she'll say "Who is your wife?" then associate a contact with that nomenclature. Quiet Hours - I use Do Not Disturb on my iPhone. Quiet Hours takes this a little further with the concept of an "Inner Circle" and a more sophisticated series of configurable rules like "Don't bother me at night on weekdays unless it's these three people, and text everyone else back that I'm not answering calls." Driving Mode - This was added in a Windows Phone 8 update but I love it. It knows you're driving because you associate your cars' Bluetooth with it, then it will text folks "I'm driving, I'll get back to you" if they text you. You can choose to never see the text until you stop. Very cool. Keyboard Swiping - It's built into the main keyboard now, no separate app. The predictive text has gotten better as well. Battery Sense - The phone can tell you what apps are eating the battery, and when they are eating it. It'll show if the battery is being used by apps in the background or in the foreground. I recorded a video on a real phone (the 1520 above, in fact) and demonstrated a LOT of the new feature. 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(Poem #607) Ballad of the Canal
We were crowded in the cabin, Not a soul had room to sleep; It was midnight on the waters, And the banks were very steep. 'Tis a fearful thing when sleeping To be startled by the shock, And to hear the rattling trumpet Thunder, "Coming to a lock!" So we shuddered there in silence, For the stoutest berth was shook, While the wooden gates were opened And the mate talked with the cook. And as thus we lay in darkness, Each one wishing we were there, "We are through!" the captain shouted, And he sat upon a chair. And his little daughter whispered, Thinking that he ought to know, "Isn't travelling by canal-boats Just as safe as it is slow?" Then he kissed the little maiden, And with better cheer we spoke, And we trotted into Pittsburg, When the morn looked through the smoke.
Note: A parody of James T. Field's "Ballad of the Tempest" (see links) There are some poems that just cry out for parodies. Now this is not in itself a bad thing - in fact we ran an entire theme on oft-parodied poems, where what made them so was their well-earned distinctiveness. However, there are others which have shot to fame on the basis of a weak sentimentality or blatant sanctimoniousness, and which no right-thinking person should be content to leave unskewered <g>. Well, Field's "Ballad of the Tempest" was just such a poem, and, luckily for posterity, Phoebe Cary was just such a right-thinking person. Today's poem is not all that funny if you read it on its own; in conjunction with the original, I found it hilarious. (My favourite line was the wonderfully deadpan 'and the banks were very steep'). Biography: Here's a joint biography of Cary and her sister Alice [broken link] http://women.eb.com/women/articles/Cary_Alice_and_Phoebe.html Links: Field's original: [broken link] http://www.geocities.com/~spanoudi/poems/fields01.html#1 It is unlikely to appear on Minstrels any time soon. The complete works of Cary online http://www.nt1.nagasaki-gaigo.ac.jp/ishikawa/amlit/c/cary_p19re.htm Cary's most famous poem is probably 'The Leak in the Dike', http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/poems/caryph3.html We've run a number of parodies on Minstrels, and two parody themes - the aforementioned oft-parodied poems poem #85 poem #88 poem #90 and a set of poems run specifically for their parodies: poem #376 poem #378 poem #380 -martin


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Not sure why more folks aren't talking about this (of course they could be, but I haven't read much on it) – but the Packers have had a very easy schedule so far. Their schedule through the bye week has featured the following opponents:
- Saints 4-2
- Panthers 1-5
- Bears 3-3
- Broncos 1-4
- Falcons 3-3
- Rams 0-5
- Vikings -5
So we've played 1 team with a winning record – yep, 1 team. And the combined records of our opponents? 13-27.
I'm excited about this season and I recognize the obvious fact that the Packers are awesome. But I just wanted to point out the fact that we have played a soft schedule so far this year. The second half of the year will feature a few tougher games (San Diego, Oakland, NYG, Det) but we still won't be playing against any of the early powerhouse teams like NE, Balt, San Fran, etc).